Friday, Sep 21, 2012

ARTICLE: More and more businesses are becoming comfortable with cloud computing. While it's still early in the evolution to this new computing paradigm, adoption is proceeding at a rapid pace. The market has reached the tipping point that affirms a new technology's market viability and validates expectations of continued momentum.

Monday, Sep 24, 2012

ARTICLE: As computing professionals, we know the critical and central role software plays in our lives and work. The size and complexity of programs continue to grow, as well as the number of their application domains. Unfortunately, there are often serious problems in software dependability, with issues of availability, reliability, safety, and security. The extensive use of the Internet and distributed computing has made software security an increasingly prominent and serious problem.

Wednesday, Oct 17, 2012

ARTICLE: If you're an experienced software developer, how can you change or shift your career in the direction of software assurance to take advantage of the growing need for professionals in this area?

Thursday, Oct 4, 2012

ARTICLE: There's no question that it's harder to get a job these days. Just getting your resume into the hands of a decision-maker is a major challenge, and if you're lucky enough to pull that off, then you've got an interview and — if you're good at interviewing — a round of interviews to prepare for.

Wednesday, Oct 3, 2012

ARTICLE: In the rapidly evolving mobile application market, new technologies, players, devices, and platforms emerge just about every month. These constant shifts in the business landscape and competitive environment create uncertainty and risk for application developers already struggling to stand out. But few can ignore the opportunity, since mobility will eventually have a role in most digital products and services.

Tuesday, Oct 2, 2012

ARTICLE: When the deadliest tornado outbreak in nearly a decade thrashed the state of Alabama in the spring of 2011, communities in rural Marion County were among the first to take a direct hit from a mile-wide, 132-mile-long EF-5 tornado. All businesses except one were damaged or destroyed in the small town of Hackleburg, including the police station and central telephone office.

Tuesday, Oct 9, 2012

ARTICLE: Back in 1984, when he was a student member of IEEE, Sumi Helal outlined his technological vision of what the world would be like in 2084 for the magazine IEEE Potential. He came across the magazine years later, after he'd helped make some of those technological predictions come true. Now at the University of Florida, Gainesville, Helal spoke to the IEEE Computer Society's Dick Price about teaching and the two mobile middleware startups he helped found. His advice to students? Stay in school as long as you can.

Thursday, Oct 11, 2012

ARTICLE: The most valuable lifelong skill that Nur Touba picked up while working toward his doctorate in electrical engineering was mastering effective written and oral communication. Now a professor in University of Texas at Austin's Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Touba is passing that same lesson on to his students.

Thursday, Oct 25, 2012

ARTICLE: Many of today's biggest technology companies were founded by kids barely out of high school. Bill Gates learned programming at 13 and left Harvard University as a junior to start Microsoft, a company that now has 78,000 employees worldwide and $50 billion in annual revenue.

Friday, Oct 26, 2012

ARTICLE: The computing field asks a lot of its practitioners. Its professionals must be diligent, naturally curious, good problem solvers, able to grapple with big concepts as well as minutiae and willing to think outside of conventional boundaries to develop new code, architectures and applications that will find value in business and society. Yet in today’s competitive and global business environment, computing professionals must add yet another fundamental skill to the mix: the ability to lead and manage people.

Tuesday, Nov 6, 2012

ARTICLE: Many of us have lived with that gnawing feeling that our work must have a purpose beyond our current employer and project. We hope to find a wellspring of motivation from connecting with that purpose. Many search for years, then eventually give up and settle into enduring work with dogged determination while keeping one eye on retirement. However, a few are lucky enough to discover their unique purpose for work — a purpose that uniquely matches their interests and personalities.

Monday, Nov 5, 2012

ARTICLE: If you thought tech incubators were a thing of the past, think again. In multiple cities around the world, new incubators are cropping up while longstanding ones are churning away and even expanding.

Friday, Nov 16, 2012

ARTICLE: In the ninth in a series of articles providing basic information on legal issues facing people and businesses, Computing and the Law contributors Brian M. Gaff, Brian P. Murphy, Ralph A. Loren, Christine A. Dudzik, and Lisa Swiszcz examine strategic considerations in seeking and defending against new post-grant review procedures under the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act.

Monday, Nov 19, 2012

ARTICLE: Authors David Alan Grier and Erin Dian Dumbacher provide an audio recording of their Forward Slash column, in which they discuss how computer science seems to be moving rapidly into the social sciences, not to build machines that simulate our actions but to hold up a mirror to our lives.

Tuesday, Nov 20, 2012

ARTICLE: In the tenth in a series of articles providing basic information on legal issues facing people and businesses that operate in computing-related markets, the authors discuss the different types of corporate entities.

Tuesday, Nov 27, 2012

ARTICLE: A series of articles in Computer magazine provides basic information on legal issues facing people and businesses that operate in computing-related markets; in this installment, the authors discuss the America Invents Act.

Monday, Dec 3, 2012

ARTICLE: If you've been working in the IT industry for any length of time, you've probably heard of the term "cloud computing". Cloud computing is essentially the use of computing resources to deliver services to users over the internet. As many have expected, this concept has changed the way that hardware and software is used.

Thursday, Dec 6, 2012

ARTICLE: Authors David Alan Grier and Erin Dian Dumbacher provide an audio recording of their Forward Slash column, in which they discuss the odd relationship gaming has with software and software engineering.

Monday, Dec 10, 2012

ARTICLE: The twelfth in a series of articles in Computer magazine provides basic information on legal issues facing people and businesses that operate in computing-related markets discusses employment law issues faced by new companies.

Monday, Jan 7, 2013

VIDEO: Harte-Hanks’ December 2012 Technology Purchase Index (TPI) indicates a whopping 21% increase in technology purchase intentions in Q3 2012. Planned investments in cloud computing and investments stemming from the need to store and analyzed “big data” appear to be driving this acceleration in buying intentions despite the economic uncertainty posed by the recent Presidential Elections and the impending “fiscal cliff”. Based on over 10,000 surveys conducted monthly with technology decision-makers, the December TPI indicates these additional technology trends: - Purchase intentions for software solutions were up 33.6%, the largest increase of all technology categories tracked by the TPI. - Hardware and cloud computing purchase intentions also showed sharp increases of 17.7% and 15.4% respectively. - Planned investments in virtualization solutions (desktop, storage, and server) continued their downward trend with a decline of 2.9% over previous quarter.

Wednesday, Jan 16, 2013

ARTICLE: Ronald Fagin received the 2012 IEEE Computer Society W. Wallace McDowell Award for his fundamental and lasting contributions to the theory of databases. The W. Wallace McDowell award is awarded by the IEEE Computer Society for outstanding recent theoretical, design, educational, practical, or other similar innovative contributions that fall within the scope of Computer Society interest.

Friday, Feb 1, 2013

ARTICLE: Author David Alan Grier expands on his Errant Hashtag column, in which he discusses the potential confusion Internet postings can cause when information posted in the past still seems new today.

Monday, Feb 11, 2013

Friday, Mar 15, 2013

ARTICLE: Authors Brian M. Gaff and Peter J. Cuomo provide an audio recording of the Computing and the Law column, in which they discuss how design patents, though once relatively uncommon, are now used aggressively and — as recent events have shown — can lead to significant liability for those found to infringe them.

Thursday, Sep 19, 2013

ARTICLE: Protecting 17 percent of the land on Earth, the authors state, could result in the preservation of 67 percent of endemic plant species. That’s certainly efficient—and the result of a new, collaborative plant-conservation study—Achieving the Convention on Biological Diversity’s Goals for Plant Conservation—led by Lucas Joppa and Piero Visconti of Microsoft Research Cambridge, Clinton N. Jenkins of North Carolina State, and Stuart L. Pimm of Duke. Pimm and Jenkins lead the conservation nonprofit Saving Species, which works with local communities and international agencies to purchase and protect threatened lands critical for biodiversity.

Wednesday, Sep 18, 2013

ARTICLE: Joint research centers offer a location where dedicated researchers can collaborate openly and are free to make an impact with other researchers. The FAPESP Institute for IT Research is based in São Paulo, Brazil. Its research is currently focused on the environment through work with the e-Phenology project. The project is jointly funded by Microsoft Research and FAPESP (the São Paulo Research Foundation).

Tuesday, Oct 1, 2013

PODCAST: Authors Brian M. Gaff and Greg Hendershott provide an audio recording of the Computing and the Law column, in which they discuss that although bringing that new app to market sounds exciting, doing so without addressing common start-up issues will make the process more difficult than it needs to be. From Computer's October 2013 issue: http://www.computer.org/csdl/mags/co/.... Visit Computer: http://www.computer.org/computer.

Monday, Oct 28, 2013

VIDEO: More than 500 students from 17 Seattle schools participated in App Day 2013 -- a fun opportunity for students to gain first-hand computer programming experience with the help of Microsoft's TouchDevelop platform, which easily allows you to build apps on the iPad, iPhone, Android, PC, Mac and Windows Phone.

Monday, Jan 26, 2015

ARTICLE: Open source advocate William Hurley, known as whurley, got his start working for large companies--in research and development at Apple and as a master inventor for IBM. But where he found his real success was in co-founding new companies--first security management company Symbiot, then Chaotic Moon, an Austin-based mobile software design and development studio, and now Honest Dollar, a stealth financial technology startup that will launch this year at SxSW in Austin.

Wednesday, Jan 28, 2015

PODCAST: IP expert Brian M. Gaff discusses the myriad issues that most startups face before even opening their doors, including getting financing, hiring the right people, finding office space, and--importantly--getting the companyís intellectual property under control and adequately protected.

Tuesday, Jan 27, 2015

VIDEO: Startup Rock Stars will provide valuable information for those running, or thinking of running, a startup – no matter what stage of investment. Visit http://www.computer.org/Startup to see the full list of Rock Stars speakers.

Wednesday, Jan 28, 2015

ARTICLE: A friendly buying and selling platform, a quick-and-easy online store builder, and the maker of connected urban bikes were among the members of the Canadian startup community singled out for kudos in Techvibes' 2014 Canadian Startup Awards.

Thursday, Jan 29, 2015

ARTICLE: Brian Meece started out as a ukelele player. Now he's CEO of the online crowdfunding platform RocketHub. Launched in 2010 by Meece and actor/producer Jed Cohen, tech writer Vladimir Vukicevic, and later musician/linguist Alon Hillel-Tuch, the site hosts users from around the world who post campaigns to raise funds and awareness for projects and endeavors.

Monday, Feb 2, 2015

ARTICLE: Howard Leonhardt is an inventor, serial entrepreneur, patent holder, winemaker, and baseball team owner. But what's brought him a different kind of fulfillment is seeing how the cardiac products he's developed have saved human lives.

Saturday, Feb 7, 2015

Tuesday, Feb 10, 2015

VIDEO: Author David Alan Grier expands on his Errant Hashtag column, in which he discusses how location plays an important role in software development and how nine cities hold 40 percent of the U.S. software market, with particular specialties clustered in specific areas. From Computer's February 2015 issue.

Tuesday, Feb 10, 2015

VIDEO: Audrey Speicher, director of Tek Mountain, talks about the model business incubator in Wilmington, North Carolina, that fosters an entrepreneurial spirit by providing a physical space and work atmosphere conducive to interaction and innovation.

Tuesday, Feb 17, 2015

ARTICLE: Amazing strides have been made in trying to close the big data skills gap. Although companies are still fine-tuning their ideas on what type of skill sets will be needed to form the big data teams to incorporate analytics into business processes, sort and analyze structured and unstructured data, and monetize existing data, those with graduate degrees or doctorates in statistics--the bonafide data scientists--will certainly be an important part of the team.

Tuesday, Feb 24, 2015

ARTICLE: If you thought tech incubators were a thing of the past, think again. In multiple cities around the world, new incubators are cropping up while longstanding ones are churning away and even expanding. Some have long lists of successful companies they’ve nurtured over the years. Others are around as a result of economic stimulus efforts and/or to capitalize on recent trends. And some focus on specific criteria, such as startups run by college students or select areas of technology, while others have broader interests. But no matter what differentiates them from each other, these incubators have one common goal: to foster the growth of early-stage startups.

Tuesday, Oct 23, 2012

BLOGPOST: Star West 2012, located at the Disneyland Hotel, just wrapped up, and after five days full of information on the cutting edge of software quality engineering, it’s pretty evident that this conference is here to stay. 2012’s content-offerings were varied and interesting, but I’m here to talk about the expo floor.

Wednesday, Oct 24, 2012

BLOGPOST: The inaugural MobileCon event just wrapped up in San Diego, bringing 5,000 IT professionals from various fields down to an unusually rainy southern California. Designed specifically for the IT executive and professional, most of the content at the conference was about different enterprise solutions centered around the increasingly complex mobile marketplace.

Thursday, Nov 29, 2012

BLOGPOST: After a snow-filled week in Salt Lake City for SC ’12, the IEEE Computer Society and ACM co-sponsored conference on supercomputing and high-powered computing, I tried to relax in my airplane seat. When striking up the usual small-talk that accompanies flying coach, I found out that the gentleman sitting in the aisle seat was leaving the conference as well. The man in the middle? Not a techie, and he posed an interesting question to us both: “What exactly is supercomputing?” I won’t bore you with the answer that we gave, but I will say that the question is an important one. Most of the conferences that I find myself at are focused on some narrow aspect of computing, be it mobility, graphics, or software engineering, but I was very excited to be going to my first Supercomputing conference. I like the idea of having a place where HPC, networking, data storage, and education all mix together. Most of my excitement came from curiosity about what kinds of stuff I’d find in the exhibit hall. Would there be flashy booths? Huge HPC racks? Cutting edge applications? Yes.

Monday, Dec 10, 2012

BLOGPOST: More than 500 years ago (or April of 2010, whichever seems more likely), I started this blog with the big, bold, brilliant idea of keeping it limited to 300 words or less about (and I quote): "The Glamorous and Exciting World of Publishing." Yeah, I talk like that.

Wednesday, Jan 2, 2013

BLOGPOST: People tell me “there’s just something about the feel of a book in my hands” when explaining why they don’t want to embrace digital delivery methods. I mean, honestly, of course there’s “something” about holding a book: it’s what we’ve done as human beings for two thousand years. It’s ingrained in our minds as The Way Things Are Done. If it hadn’t been for the Chinese and Gutenberg, we’d be hauling around big slabs of stone and drawing pictures of what we had for lunch. But here’s a wild and crazy idea: What if, in a digital age in which content is suddenly, miraculously, for the first time ever, liberated from the physical constraints of the page (or scroll or folio or whatever), what if in such an amazing time we actually treated content as relevant to its medium? That’s a fancy-pants way of saying this: Maybe content that’s delivered on computer screens, or tablet surfaces, or smartphones, should not necessarily be expected to look and act as if it’s being delivered on a piece of paper.

Friday, Jan 18, 2013

BLOGPOST: In a recent column in the Los Angeles Times, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Michael Hiltzik expressed dismay and horror that, while a book-purchaser “owns” the book purchased, and can do as he or she pleases with it— read it, lend it, give it away, sell it, store it on a shelf for a few decades, feed it to the cat—those poor creatures who download books onto e-readers and mobile devices are only receiving a license, with limited ownership rights, and can never fully enjoy the right of owning the book. Their cats, in short, go hungry. He’s not wrong, of course. It is true that the purchase of a book from, say, Amazon’s Kindle Store is in fact not a purchase but a license agreement. Readers are not buying a book: they’re buying the right to access the book’s content stored in Amazon’s cloud.

Wednesday, Mar 6, 2013

BLOGPOST: In its final report on open access, published in June of 2012, the U.K.’s Report of the Working Group on Expanding Access to Published Research Findings, led by Dame Janet Finch, CBE (“the Finch Report”) made this observation: “The principle that the results of research that has been publicly funded should be freely accessible in the public domain is a compelling one, and fundamentally unanswerable.” Most researchers and scholars who can both understand and use the results that flow from publicly-funded research have, as my steering committee professor said, free and easy access to it. If the people working in the institutions who need the data have access to it through existing channels, where exactly is the necessity to implement vast-reaching changes in the scholarly publishing model?

Friday, Mar 22, 2013

BLOGPOST: H-WOOD TOP TRADE’S BAD BOFFOLA FORCES FLIP: VARIETY VENTURES VIRTUAL, PASSES ON PULP For those unfamiliar with the unique phraseology of Daily Variety, the entertainment industry’s newspaper, it’s how the century-old paper might describe its situation today: Hollywood’s Top Trade Publication’s Poor Financial Performance Forces a Change: Variety to go Online-only, Ends Daily Paper Publication. Anyway, it’s true: Daily Variety newspaper, which has published industry gossip, insider information, and entertainment news since 1905, is no more. There’s a website, supplemented by a weekly (print) magazine that’s probably not long for this world, either. We knew everything in publishing was going to change; it’s just changing right now, and very, very fast.

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